Siegfried Sassoon's "The Dragon and the Undying" includes the following lines: "Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder'd seas." Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?
Correct answer: B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
- A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
- B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature
- C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare
- D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare
Explanation
The phrases “as the breeze” and “like stormbewilder’d seas” are similes, linking the dead soldiers with images from nature. The comparison makes their scattered, restless condition vivid rather than directly naming warfare through metonymy.
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